Hey Hey!
This week has been a good one! Really different, but shweetish fish.
We’ve been still doing a lot of caroling! Its a really crazy difference how people actually open the door and SMILE! Throws me off! hahah
Tuesday a member in a different ward asked us if we want a 7 ft Christmas tree! He gave us lights to put on it, and ornaments too! It feels like Christmas! Elder Beard even lined the ceiling with lights so it lights the whole room!
This week we got French pamphlets to teach to Somplice! Wahoo!
When Elder Beard arrived on Wednesday, I talked to him about how we have a light plate above our desks, but the light fixture was hanging from the socket in the “Dining Area”. In other words, we don’t have a light hanging above our desks, but there is one on the other side of the room. So he said he was handy and could move the light fixture to the empty socket above our head. He made it his project. Moving my desk back and forth to stand on (hes vertically challenged). So Im doing the planning for the night and hes walking across my desk, moving my desk back and forth across the room, dropping the ceiling stuff everywhere….Eventually we got it hooked up and realized that the lightswitch wasn’t connected to that light (like it was supposed to). So he was messing with the wires in the wall! Attaching wires and such. But first he had to switch the breaker off so that he didn’t get “shock-ed and amaz-ed”. So All lights on, ALL lights off. Back and forth. Then after 20min of this, he hooked the power to the ground wire or something and shut off the power from the main circuit (we didn’t have access to) So we just decided to go to bed. “I don’t care about anything in the fridge, anyway!”
The next morning we had to wait till 9 for our apartment complex office to open to ask them to turn it on. It occurred to me that there wasn’t going to be any hot water….So we just jumped strait into studies after workout – using a finger LED light we randomly have.
We had a Christmas Devotional with President Ames! He served us pulled pork sandwiches and treats. We also got to watch The Christmas Carol! Got to see past companions and catch up. Me and *Insert dad saying, “What, don’t call them mean!”*” a couple others sang an arrangement of Silent night for the 4 Zones there! Fun stuff!
Saturday, we went over to Donas (the next building over from where we live) and helped him with practicing the sacrament prayer and set up. He said that Somplice should be over that night and we would come back to teach him. That night he wasn’t there. He left home to go to Donas place 6am (to sleep over so he could get to church) and still wasn’t there at 8pm. No one knew where he was. At church Dona told us that Somplice tried to take the freeway (from Euless – neighboring town) but he doesn’t speak English! He ended up in WACO! I know, that doesn’t mean anything to you. But that’s toward the bottom of our mission and 3-4 hours south of us. Got lost HOURS away from home! Poor guy. Some police down there helped him out!
Found out that our bishop went to college with Breanna Smiths dad! Showed me their Christmas card – it was the weirdest thing ever! Not the card…the experience. haha
For a Christmas Season and 3 days before Christmas, 58 degrees blows my mind.
Well everyone, thanks for the letters! and Merry Christmas!
Love all yall!
Elder Householder
Temple with the Semi-full zone!
